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No, but you do allow the presence of advertising on your TV or radio so why should web pages be different? That's the contract you agree to.
by bitmapbrother 11y ago
No, but you do allow the presence of advertising on your TV or radio so why should web pages be different? That's the contract you agree to.
- __david__ 11y agoAllow how? I haven't watched an ad on TV since I bought my first DVR over 10 years ago.
- douche 11y agoAd-blocking is exactly the same thing as turning the volume off during commercial breaks. Or perhaps turning the TV/radio off, and then back on again afterwards might be the better analogy, since then you are not consuming the "bandwidth". If I wanted to hurt advertising, I'd create an extension that would fire a thousand click-throughs on their stupid ad, and vacuum up all their AdSense budget. Get a few million people world-wide doing that, and companies would quickly realize that they are spending an even more ridiculous amount of money on advertisements, and they would stop spending.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoNot really as you're constantly having to turn the volume off and on when the show resumes. So you're interacting with the actual ad and subconsciously you've acknowledged what they're advertising. As for hurting advertising by your click though scheme - do you really think you're the first one to have thought of this? They have measures in place to identify and disregard this.